In the very entertaining 1996 summer blockbuster movie “Independence Day,” President Whitmore is told of the alien tech that has been hidden and studied in Area 51 for years, the cost of which was hidden through stories planted in the media about creative accounting. Hollywood has come out with some science fiction bangers over the past 75 years, and sometimes as art does, it has mirrored the hopes and fears of the general population. But have you ever wondered if it was the other way around? Have you ever wondered if art wasn’t merely reflecting socio-political trends, but that the public was being conditioned to accept scientific trends and realities through the use of art? Or is it possible that like President Whitmore, the public was being distracted from asking too many questions by planting plausibly deniable stories in the media? It hasn’t ...